More From People Who Always Say "im Fine"

Specially when I'm not.
I wield my "I'm fine" like a shield, protecting my heart and my sanity, keeping the pain locked away in some secret location I never visit. Those of you who have been strong for too long, who have held back too many tears, who have woken up with drenched...

"Are you okay?" she asks me as I stand by the window, alone. I look up and see her face, worried. He's beside her, equally worried for me. I can feel the lump in my throat and I feel like crying. Of course the tears in my eyes dry up the moment I decide to let them run.
They...

Thoughts like demons possess my mind, destroying me from the inside out.
Inside me they eat away at my sanity, they sharpen their teeth as the chew on the bones of my dreams.
I expel them from my being and exercise them from my soul when there is a lull in there torturous acts...